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  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/40",
  "legislation_title": "Control of Pollution Act 1974",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Repeals",
  "text": "Chapter\nShort title\nExtent of repeal\n25 & 26 Vict. c. 97.\nThe Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1862.\nSection 13.\n38 & 39 Vict. c. 55.\nThe Public Health Act 1875.\nSection 148, but not so as to affect any agreement in force under that section.\n55 & 56 Vict. c.55\nThe Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892.\nSections 107 to 109.\nIn section 110, the words from “and may place” to “or nuisance.”\nSections 111 to 114.\nSection 116.\n58 & 59 Vict. c. 42.\nThe Sea Fisheries Regulation (Scotland) Act 1895.\nSection 8(1)(f).\n60 & 61 Vict. c. 38.\nThe Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897.\nIn section 39, the first paragraph.\n3 Edw. 7. c. 33.\nThe Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1903.\nSection 23.\nIn section 24, the words “the immediately preceding section o r under”.\n6 Edw. 7. c. 14.\nThe Alkali, &c. Works Regulation Act 1906.\nSections 3, 4, 5 and 8.\nIn section 9(1) the words “a cement work, or a smelting work”.\nIn section 11(b) the words “or with the treatment of alkali waste”.\nSection 12(1)(d).\nSections 14, 15 and 17.\nIn section 18, in subsection (1) the words “other than an offence against a special rule” and subsection (4).\nSection 19.\nIn section 20 the words “other than an offence against a special rule”.\nIn section 22(1) the words from “or that any alkali waste is deposited” to “contravention of this Act”.\nIn section 28, in paragraph (b) the words “offences against special rules and” and paragraph (c).\n13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 16.\nThe Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1923.\nIn section 9(5) the words from “and section 22(1)(a)” onwards.\n24 & 25 Geo. 5. c. 40.\nThe Administration of Justice (Appeals) Act 1934.\nIn the Schedule the entry amending section 17(5) of the Alkali Act.\n26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 49.\nThe Public Health Act 1936.\nSections 72 to 77, 79, 80 and 259(2).\n1 Edw. 8 and 1 Geo. 6. c. 5.\nThe Trunk Roads Act 1936.\nSection 6(6).\n1 Edw. 8 and 1 Geo. 6. c. 40.\nThe Public Health (Drainage of Trade Premises) Act 1937.\nSection 2(4), 3(2) and 4(1) to(3).\nIn section 7(1), the proviso.\nSection 11.\nIn section 14(1) the definition of “interested body”.\n8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 42.\nThe Water Act 1945.\nSection 18.\n14 & 15 Geo. 6. c. 64.\nThe Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1951.\nThe whole Act.\n14 & 15 Geo. 6. c. 66.\nThe Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1951.\nThe whole Act except sections 1, 6(1), 7, 9, 10(1), 12(1) to (3)and (4)(a) and (c), 13, 16, 17, 18(1) to (3), 19, 32(1), in section 35(1) the definitions of “contravention”, “functions”, “land”, “local authority”, “local water authority”, “river purification authority”, “river purification board”, “stream” and “tidal waters”, section 36(1) and (5) and Schedule 4.\n1 & 2 Eliz. 2. c. 26.\nThe Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953.\nSection 8.\n4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 52.\nThe Clean Air Act 1956.\nIn section 16(1), in the proviso, paragraph (i).\nIn section 25, paragraphs (a) and (b).\nIn section 26, the words “manufacturing process or”.\nIn Schedule 2, the amendments of sections 3, 8 and 18 of the Alkali Act.\n7 & 8 Eliz. 2 c. 25.\nThe Highways Act 1959.\nIn section 228(9) the words “section one hundred and forty-eight of the Public Health Act 1875”.\n8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 34.\nThe Radioactive Substances Act 1960.\nIn Schedule 1, in paragraph 3 the words “seventy-nine”, in paragraph 6 the word “eighteen” and paragraphs 7, 8A and 15.\n8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 54.\nThe Clean Rivers (Estuaries & Tidal Waters) Act 1960.\nThe whole Act.\n8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 68.\nThe Noise Abatement Act 1960.\nThe whole Act, but not so as to affect notices served by virtue of section 1 of the Act before the coming into force of section 58 of this Act.\n9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 50.\nThe Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1961.\nThe whole Act except sections 10, 12, 13(1) and 15(1) and (3).\n1961 c. 64.\nThe Public Health Act 1961.\nSections 55 to 58 and 63(5).\n1963 c. 33.\nThe London Government Act 1963.\nIn section 40(4)(d), the reference to section 8 of the Local Govermnent (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953, and section 40(4)(g).\nIn Part I of Schedule 11, paragraphs 14, 16 and 32.\n1963 c. 38.\nThe Water Resources Act 1963.\nSections 72 to 76.\nIn section 79, subsections (1), (2) and (7), in subsection (5) the words “by virtue of subsection (1) of this section or” and in subsection (8) the words from “(including” to “section)”.\nIn section 114, in subsection (1) the words from the first “or” to “section” and the words “or discharge”, and subsections (2) and (4)(a).\nIn section 115(1)(b) the words from “or” to “thereof”.\nIn section 135(8) the word “72”.\nIn Schedule 13, paragraphs 5, 6, 7, 11 and 14.\n1965 c. 13.\nThe Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1965.\nThe whole Act except sections 10, 13(1), 15(1) and (4) and 17(1) to (3).\n1965 c. 36.\nThe Gas Act 1965.\nSection 4(5).\n1966 c. 38.\nThe Sea Fisheries Regulation Act 1966.\nSection 5(1)(c).\n1967 c. 69.\nThe Civic Amenities Act 1967.\nSection 23(6)(a).\n1967 c. 80.\nThe Criminal Justice Act 1967.\nIn Schedule 3, the entry relating to section 114 of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892, in the entry relating to section 22 of the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897, the words “(as extended by section 1(5) of the Noise Abatement Act 1960 )” and the entries relating to sections 76(3), 94(2) and 95(1) (both as originally enacted and as applied by section 16(1) of the Clean Air Act 1956) of the Public Health Act 1936 and section 27(1) and (2) of the Clean Air Act 1956.\n1968 c. 41.\nThe Countryside Act 1968.\nSection 22(6)(c) and (8).\n1972 c. 21.\nThe Deposit of Poisonous Waste Act 1972.\nThe whole Act.\n1972 c. 70.\nThe Local Government Act 1972.\nSection 180(3)(d) and (g).\nIn section 236(2) the words “or 18”.\nIn Schedule 14 in paragraph 4 the words “79, 80” and paragraphs 5 to 8 and 49.\n1973 c. 37.\nThe Water Act 1973.\nSection 17(1) to (4).\nParagraph 5 of Schedule 2.\nParagraph 63 of Schedule 8.\n1973 c. 65.\nThe Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.\nIn section 135(3), the words from “and the said areas” to the end.\nSection 136.\nIn Schedule 16, paragraphs 7 to 9.\nIn Schedule 28, paragraph 69.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 entry repealed (S.) (1.10.2009) by Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (asp 5), s. 128(2), Sch. 3 Pt. 1 (with s. 127); S.S.I. 2009/319, art. 2(a), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The text of Sch. 4 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
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